Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

Couldn't find any evidence of a Brick Row.

Could probably come up with a Stephen Fry type 'dubious theory' on Paradise Row, Stone Row, Back Stone Row & Sea View based on how things changed within the publications of the 1897 - 1922 - 1937 & 1959 maps but it's facts we need.

No facts iro the buildings come with this, but have you seen this c1930 photo (from one of Evan Martins books) of the Furnace Bridge area that in the background shows the Bebside rows you are looking into? 

2 hours ago, Canny lass said:

Thanks, Eggy. I've seen these articles but they give no information as to the whereabouts of Brick Row. I'm in the process of doing a round of the streets in Bebside and Bebside Furnace on the 1911 census. I've found Brick Row but haven't been able to place it on a map as yet. I'll keep looking. You don't happen to know, which of your yellow stars on the map relates to which street by any chance?

Unfortunately not. 

Canny Lass - are you using 'findmypast'? I am not registered on this site (or any genealogy site) so can't get access to the newspaper article referenced on this site :-

11 hours ago, Canny lass said:

 goes straight through between the two rows of houses.

 

Your right, I was using Google, it's way out showing the B1330 as Red Row but the B1331 as Steadlane up to Vulcan Place. 

I must start using road numbers rather than pubs when giving directions! 

Canny Lass - what map are you looking at, the B1330 is further north, at Red Row on the way to Amble, on all the maps I look at.

Are you looking at the maps on :- http://maps.nls.uk/geo/find/#zoom=16&lat=55.1335&lon=-1.5654&layers=39&b=1&point=55.1326,-1.5691 - 1858 through to 1947?

I always thought Reedy's list covers the rows, on the Bebside side of the river,between the Furnace Bridge and heading East to the railway bridge. 

I know that doesn't help with - 'What happened to Paradise Row?' and I doubt there is any details on-line, but I will have a search, or two. 

Reedy - update to your dad's list - The Families from Bedside Furnance 1940-1952 -  from a Bygone Bedlington member :-

'Bridge House was divided into two dwellings the downstairs was occupied by Mrs Munley and daughter Margaret and Mr Harrison.The upstairs was occupied by my wifes parents Mr.R.Parker and Mrs Queenie Parker from Early 1930s to 1944 after which time they moved to 18 Back Stone Row living between Mr.Stan Brooks and Mr & Mrs Leightley'

Subject reopened, for me.

Postal vote arrived and landed flat, heads up, Kardean flooring, installed by Michael Metcalf contractors.

Post Immediately opened; vote/cross placed on the ballot paper; ballot paper folded and inserted into envelope A and envelope A sealed; postal voting statement completed with my date of birth and signature; completed postal voting statement and envelope A, with ballot paper inside, slipped comfortably into envelope B and envelope B sealed.

Passed envelope B to wife, to post along with hers.

J. P. Morgan staff feel more secure.

Final closure (and not an 'i', immediately, before 'e' in this posting)

I did forget to add - all CIU members are well up with aware of the remote possibility of the coin landing on it's edge and that was to be covered by the - DON'T VOTE - plan.       We, the old codgers, were aware that the 1993 revised study of the 'American Nickel dropping' giving the odds of 1 in 6,000 of a coin dropped with randomized initial conditions from a height onto a flat surface did not take into account that the majority of club tables were not level - 9 out of 10 have a crude attempt at equilibrium by the multiple folding of a beer mat that is wedged under one leg of said tables. 

I must apologise to my readers for misleading this debate and I will arrange a referendum to determine what affect this had.

10 hours ago, threegee said:

Do the electorate even know what will benefit the nation, and what will benefit themselves?  Right wingers would tend to say that they are one and the same thing (they mostly believe in enlightened self-interest).

That was my point 3g. Just like many arguments and counter arguments are posted on this site, why should Joe public, or CIU man, have any idea what will benefit individuals or the nation.

I will stick to tossing my coin (and read into that whatever you want).

ie  ( and that one follows nothin!) subject closed, for me.     

Do we vote for what benefits the nation or what benefits our self?

So if one party says -  'vote on our side' we should vote on their side but if the other party says - 'no they are wrong' we should vote for the other party.

If the other party then counters the argument to vote for the other party should we vote for the alternative?

If there isn't an alternative then do we hire a white campaign bus and convince the undecided to surrender?

If all the old codgers at the club are content with their final lot and the only time this referendum comes up is when when one old codger says  - 'ee uu lot, wi divin't want a discussion in here aboot referendun. When your postal votes arrive, dig oot that lucky coin and decide - heads for one party and tails for the other. Spin the coin, decision made.  

I'm singing and dancing in the rain, doo be do do, do be doobe dodo,   doo be do do, do be doobe dodo,  doo be do do, do be doobe dodo,  .................. 

Thank you, but I'm just collating the pics from other peoples collections , the www and Google street view.

It's thanks to Foxy, John Dawson, Blank & Cympil (and others I will have missed) that have supplied most of the Then photos.

7 hours ago, Eggy1948 said:

Ahh - keep diving in head first young man,. Life wouldn't be much fun without doing so. Now that Legal Highs are Illegal Highs us pensioners need more ways that than Compare the Market to get us excited! 

I am free to roam where ever I wish. Used up all my credit on my Pay as You Go and told the kids not to try and contact me.

Don't watch TV debates - get out and roam, for free.

Unless you run your own business and have EU regulations controlling your business output, just relax and roam free.

Stay away from the Happeny woods, the other side has just as many attractions and it's free to roam.

Do I really care?

In - Out, what's it all about, Alfie?

I'm Roaming in the Gloaming with a Bonnie near the Clyde - then the EU stepped in and it's politically correct chorus line - Roamin' in the gloamin' on the bonnie banks o' Clyde

Hour after hour after hour of debate where existing EU Trade Commissioner(s) say no to Brexit, or yes to stay and keep their jobs.

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership = the EU-US trade deal would create the largest free-trade area in the world. So add the World Fair Trade enabling the South of the planet to move from income insecurity and poverty to economic self-sufficiency and ownership. Do we now have half (approx) of the world on the fairest deals the establishments can offer?

Perhaps in '1984' I just fell in love and found complete utopia and just like the EU my wife has exercised a totalitarian environment where really I can't roam as I please!

I could go on, and on, and on but really I can't get any more confused.

Just offer me a half price roaming deal for six months with the freedom to switch suppliers, when I'm told, and I will be content.

ps

me uncomplicated State Pension (made up of Basic rate + Pre 97 additional State Pension [ also known as SERPS] + less Contracted-Out Deduction [also known as COD] + Post 97 additional State Pension [that today's youth won't be eligible for if they reach State Pension age on or after 6 April 2016] + Graduated Retirement Benefit [also known as GRAD, to them in the know] arrived in me on-line bank account toady. 

2 hours ago, webtrekker said:

Young man? I'm beginning to warm to you Canny Lass!

Anyway, well and truly rapped. I'll go back to treating everything with suspicion again! 

Ahh - keep diving in head first young man,. Life wouldn't be much fun without doing so. Now that Legal Highs are Illegal Highs us pensioners need more ways that Compare the Market to get us excited! 

4 hours ago, webtrekker said:

Interesting. So there's more than Vista out there?

Not on my machine there's not - Vista and no more updates rule Ok. 

15 minutes ago, bluebarby said:

If Pauline Pearcey is No 14 on 'middle remove' then she is No 21 on Julius Wasisname.

Last update of the day =

Act 5, Scene 1, Page 6 :- 

“O that a man might know
The end of this day's business ere it come!
But it sufficeth that the day will end
And then the end is known.” 

Now will you lot start your own topic in Chat Central - 'Eeee I never knew that'

You will have Brian to answer to if you keep drifting off the original topic!

“Et tu, Brute?”

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As for Nos 23 & 24

"Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible."

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13 hours ago, John Fox (foxy) said:

 Canny lass,  have you not noticed the deliberate mistake with numbers 23 and 24

13 hours ago Canny Lass replied

I looked at 23 and thought: that's the double of Eric Burns - must be a relation! I didn't spot Brian though!

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Updates I have to do :-

Middle Remove - No 14 = Pauline Pearcey.

                           No 25 = Yvonne Brown

Julius Caeser (aka I Brutus, or is it, Eee Brutus )

So is 23 Eric Burns (not Brian Burns) & 24 Brian Goodall (not Eric Goodall) ?

“I could be well moved, if I were as you;
If I could pray to move, prayers would move me:
But I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.” 

And I says :-

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; 
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him; 
The evil that men do lives after them, 
The good is oft interred with their bones”  

7 minutes ago, Canny lass said:

Speaking of "red", what was that fluid you could put in a leaking car radiator to seal the holes? It ran out and stained everything red.

Could be Radweld that your thinking about. Some people used to say they would pour an egg white, albumen, onto a hole in a radiator, so the hot water would boil the white and seal the hole. 

39 minutes ago, Canny lass said:

You've missed the second line of the mnemonic:

I before E except after C

but only when it sounds like EE.

OR a better way to get it right, according to me,is: 

I before E, except after C or when sounded as A as in neighbour and weigh.

The spelling is related to the sound system

Doh!

Middle Remove - No 14 = Pauline Pearcey.

No 1 Ted Smout and No 5 now reads Lucas, not Liwes (he he).

23 hours ago, HIGH PIT WILMA said:

[on a closing note...I have always had a problem with "Their's"...or is it....."Thier's"?]

I have to stop every time I write, sorry type any word with an 'i' and an 'e' together, is it ie or ei. At Bedlington Grammar School everyone sat Mock GCEs (previous year's exam papers) to get an idea what they would be like. I remember the teacher saying - Edgar you passed most then we deducted 1/2 point for every spelling mistake and you failed the lot, apart from the 3 maths - Arithmetic; Algebra & Geometry.

I had gone all through the senior school indoctrinated with the phrase, that all the Barrington County Primary school teachers had repeated over and over so it became embedded into my brain - 'I before E except after C'.

So I recEIved thIEr words and carried that phrase in my little brain for years and I misspelled simple words time after time after time, and I probably still do.

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[on a closing note...I have never spotted a spelling mistake in any of your stories]

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Middle Remove class photo 1959 - with names added:-

Julius Caeser photo update, Nos 3,5 and 1 (but still ?) from HPWs post. Sixtownships ex Westridge pupil reckons No 13 is Winifred Brewis.

12 hours ago, bluebarby said:

Blue Barby a bloke? Now that's a novelty! I think the genuine, real Iam, Blue Barby would differ with you there!

BB

There you go, when I passed the photo's on to wor Una I did comment '....the fella that posted these photos...' but as you can see from her response she questioned my assumption - ....' Why do you think Bluebarby should be a bloke? I'd love to meet him/her. Cheers, Una x'

 All I know about Westridge is a) some of my relatives, Henderson's, and one E. E. Hall went there - b ) long walk from the gate to the school - c) much better to turn off the road the other way and go into The Ridge Farm for a carvery.

No more names to add, from the bedlington facebook postings, so I will post them to a wider audience on the sixtownships site.

15 hours ago, bluebarby said:

To get the year for the Julius Ceaser photo it will take someone with a good memory. 

In 1961 the play for GCE English literature was Macbeth (I know that because to this day I see daggers in front of my eyes, trees with legs and scared of women with pointy hats)

I think but cant be certain that the 1960 play was A Midsummer Night's Dream and 1959 was Julius Ceaser. 

Any guesses? 

BB

Una could not be certain of the year but her thoughts, that she is happy to post, are :-

"Hello, I remember (as part of the crowd) taking up the chant,"Beware the Ides of March". I left at the end of 1960. so it had to be during 1960 or 59. I'd put money on 1959 as we did very little in the School hall in 1960 because a tv was set up to follow as much of the olympic games as allowable. Could that narrow it down. I also remember A Midsummers Night Dream.  I think A class mate of mine, Janet Lyle, was Puck. Why do you think Bluebarby should be a bloke? I'd love to meet him/her.

Cheers, Una x"